check_dell_warranty version 1.1 released

[Erinn Looney-Triggs]

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Both good ideas, the SNMP part I was planning on putting in later, but
the check for omreport I hadn't thought about, that would certainly be
useful.

I will see what I can put together and let you know,

- -Erinn

Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote:
> Erinn Looney-Triggs <erinn.looneytriggs at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I don't plan on spamming y'all with release announcements but given
>> that this fixes a rather stupid bug, wherein the plugin does not
>> return the right status I thought I would let you folks know that I
>> have released version 1.1 of this plugin, location is the same:
> 
> I have a couple of ideas that might improve your plugin.
> 
>   1. You can get the serial number via OMSA, e.g.:
> 
>        $ omreport chassis info | grep 'Chassis Service Tag'
>        Chassis Service Tag                      : 5GG4M1J
> 
>      This doesn't require root privileges and should be preferred if
>      OMSA is installed on the server. You can always failback to
>      dmidecode.
> 
>   2. Build in SNMP support. Let the Nagios server query the Dell server
>      via SNMP to get the serial number (requires OMSA) and contact the
>      Dell HTTP service. I'm guessing a lot of people is sceptical to
>      letting all their servers making HTTP connections to Dell support
>      at the whim of the Nagios server. SNMP support would make your
>      plugin compatible with other OS-es (i.e. Windows) and would
>      significantly widen your user base.
> 
> I realize that the second idea would require a major overhaul, but it
> could be fun.
> 
> BTW, thanks for this plugin. I was thinking of writing one myself, but
> never got around to it, as usual. Kudos :)
> 
> Happy monitoring,

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